Davids
THOMAS WILLIAM RHYS, an English publicist, lawyer, and scholar; born in Colchester, May 12, 1843. He was educated at the University of Breslau; from 1866 on, filled judicial places in Ceylon and acted as Archæological Commissioner. In 1877 he was called to the London bar, and subsequently became Professor of Pali and Buddhist Literature in University College, London. Among his works are: "Buddhism" (1878); translations of "Buddhist Birth Stories" (1880); "Buddhist Suttas" and "Vinaya Texts" (1881); published in "The Sacred Books of the East"; "Buddhist India" (1912); "Early Buddhism" (1908).
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Davidson College
an educational institution in Davidson, N. C.; founded in 1837, under the auspices of the Presbyterian Church; reported at the end of 1919: Professors and instructors, 16; students, 379; president, Wm. J. Martin, LL.D.
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Davies, Lady
Eleanor Tuchet, daughter of George, Lord Audley, married Sir John Davies, an eminent lawyer in the time of James the First, and author of a poem of considerable merit on the Immortality of the Soul. This lady was a person of many talents; but what she seems most to have valued herself upon, was her gift of prophecy; and she accordingly printed a book of Strange and Wonderful Predictions. She professed to receive her prophecies from a spirit, who communicated to her audibly things about to come to pass, though the voice could be heard by no other person. Sir John Davies was nominated lord chief justice of the king's bench in 1626. Before he was inducted into the office, lady Eleanor, sitting with him on Sunday at dinner, suddenly burst into a passion of tears. Sir John asked her what made her weep. To which she replied "These are your funeral tears." Sir John turned off the prediction with a merry answer. But in a very few days he was seized with an apoplexy, of which he presently died. She also predicted the death of the duke of Buckingham in the same year. For this assumption of the gift of prophecy, she was cited before the high-commission-court and examined in 1634. Dee, John
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Davis Strait
a strait that washes the W. coast of Greenland, and connects Baffin Bay with the Atlantic Ocean. At its narrowest point, immediately N. of the Arctic circle, it measures about 200 miles across. In 1888 the identity between Ginnunga Gap, referred to in the Sagas, and the present Davis Strait was demonstrated. DAVIT. 1. A beam projecting from a ship's bow, for the attachment of the tackle whereby the anchor -fluke is lifted without dragging against the side of the The operation is nautically vessel. called fishing the anchor. 2. One of a pair of cranes on the gunwale of a ship, from which are suspended the quarter or other boats. The boattackles are attached to rings in the bow and stern of the boat respectively , and the fall is belayed on deck . When the boat is lowered the hooks of the fallblocks are cast off simultaneously , or great danger results when the ship is under way.
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Davis, Andrew Jackson
Known as the "Poughkeepsie Seer" from his residence in Poughkeepsie, N.Y., was a prophet, clairvoyant, and mystic philosopher, who commenced his mission to the world about 1844, some time before the Rochester Rappings had inaugurated the movement known as "modern spiritualism." In 1847 he published a volume of trance discourses, The Principles of Nature, Her Divine Revelations, and A Voice to Mankind. In the same year he issued the first number of the Univercœlum, a periodical devoted to clairvoyance and trance phenomena generally, which continued till 1849. Not until 1850, however, did Davis and his followers identify themselves with the spiritualists. In his Revelations the Poughkeepsie Seer propounds his Harmonial Philosophy, afterwards to be elaborated in many volumes. His mission, revealed to him by Galen and Swedenborg, was the prophesying of a new dispensation, preceded by a social revolution. He was associated, throughout his career, with many prominent spiritualists.
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Davis, Mrs. Rebecca Blaine Harding
Mrs. Rebecca Blaine Harding (1831-), an American story writer. She was born in Washington, Pennsylvania. She was the first American writer to make use of the labor question in fiction. Her novels include Life in the Iron Mills-A Story of Today, published later as Margaret Howth, A Law unto Herself, Waiting for the Verdict, and others. Mrs. Davis has written many short stories which have been more widely read than her novels. Her style is simple and direct, and the tone of her stories invariably wholesome.
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Davis, Richard Harding
Richard Harding (1864-), an American novelist, war correspondent, and newspaper writer. He is a son of Rebecca Harding Davis, and was born in Philadelphia. He received his education at Lehigh University, and began his journalistic life in Philadelphia. Gallegher, his first literary success, is a story from his own newspaper experiences. It appeared with other stories in 1891. Since that time Davis has produced many novels and short stories which have won popular favor. Soldiers of Fortune, Van Bibber and Others, The King's Jackal, The Bar Sinister, and The Princess Aline are among those best Known. Davis acted as war correspondent during the Spanish-American War, and in South Africa.
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Davison
HENRY POMEROY, an American financier, born in Troy, Pa. , in 1867, and educated privately at South Williamstown, Mass. In 1891 he became teller of the Astor Place National Bank in New York City and rose gradually in the financial world until in 1899. he became president of the Liberty National Bank of New York. A year or two later he became Vice-President of the First National Bank. Later he entered the firm of J. P. Morgan & Co. and became an active partner in that concern. 1917 he was appointed chairman of the war council of the American Red Cross and during the World War he largely directed the huge undertakings of this society. After the close of the war he devoted himself to reconstruction problems in Europe. In
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Davitt
MICHAEL, founder of the Irish Land League; born near Straid, County Mayo, in 1846. Evicted from their small holding, the family emigrated to Haslingden in Lancashire (1851); and here six years later the boy lost his right arm in a cotton machine. In 1866 he joined the Fenian movement, the result being that he was sentenced in 1870 to 15 years' penal servitude. He was released in 1877; and began some two years later an anti-landlord crusade in Ireland, which culminated in the foundation of the Irish Land League (Oct. 21, 1879). Davitt was thenceforward in frequent collision with the government, and from February, 1881, to May, 1882, was imprisoned in Portland for breaking his ticket-of-leave. His "Leaves from a Prison Diary" were published in 1885. Though a strong Home Ruler, on the question of land nationalization he found himself in opposition to the Parnellites. He opposed the continued leadership of Mr. Parnell, and was returned to Parliament in 1892 as an anti-Parnellite, but unseated on petition. He was returned unopposed for South Mayo in 1895. He died May 31, 1906.
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